Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

For you will be like an oak whose leaf fades away
Or as a garden that has no water.

King James Version

For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

Holman Bible

For you will become like an oak
whose leaves are withered,
and like a garden without water.

International Standard Version

You'll be like an oak whose leaf is withering, like an unwatered garden.

A Conservative Version

For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.

American Standard Version

For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

Amplified


For you will be like an oak whose leaf withers and dies
And like a garden that has no water.

Bible in Basic English

For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.

Darby Translation

For ye shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

Julia Smith Translation

For ye shall be as an oak the leaf withering, and as a garden which there no water to it.

King James 2000

For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For you shall be like an oak withering its leaves, and like a garden where there is no water for her.

Modern King James verseion

For you shall be like an oak whose leaf fades, and like a garden that has no water.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Ye shall be as an oak whose leaves are fallen away, and as a garden that hath no moistness.

NET Bible

For you will be like a tree whose leaves wither, like an orchard that is unwatered.

New Heart English Bible

For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.

The Emphasized Bible

For ye shall be as an oak with its leaf faded, And as a garden that hath no, water;

Webster

For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

World English Bible

For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.

Youngs Literal Translation

For ye are as an oak whose leaf is fading, And as a garden that hath no water.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For ye shall be as an oak
אלה 
'elah 
Usage: 13

עלה 
`aleh 
Usage: 18

and as a garden
גּנּה 
Gannah 
Usage: 12

References

Context Readings

Purification Of Jerusalem

29 For ye shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the groves that ye have chosen. 30 For you will be like an oak whose leaf fades away
Or as a garden that has no water.
31 And the strong idol shall be as tow and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and no one shall be able to quench them.

Cross References

Isaiah 5:6

And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned, nor hoed; but briers and thorns shall come up there; I will even command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Isaiah 58:11

And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

Jeremiah 17:5-6

Thus hath the LORD said; Cursed be the man that trusts in man and makes flesh his arm and whose heart departs from the LORD.

Jeremiah 31:12

Therefore they shall come and do praises in the height of Zion and shall run unto the goodness of the LORD, unto the bread, and unto the wine, and unto the oil, and unto the gain of the flock and of the herd and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

Ezekiel 17:9-10

Say thou: Thus hath the Lord GOD said, Shall it be prospered? Shall he not pull it up its roots and destroy its fruit and let it wither? All of the leaves of her spring shall wither, even without great power or many people plucking it up by its roots.

Ezekiel 17:24

And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish; I the LORD have spoken and have done it.

Ezekiel 31:4-18

The waters made him grow; the deep set him up on high; her rivers ran round his feet and sent her flow to all the trees of the field.

Matthew 21:19

And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it and found nothing upon it, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee from now on for ever. And then the fig tree withered away.

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